Part 57 (2/2)
Saturday, May 3, 1986 Stopped at Sotheby's Looked at s Sos up for auction and so to make 5 or 7,000, that's the estiave thee picked , but first ent to the Pop Shop, Keith's store that opened the other week that I still hadn't been to And he has five people working there, two bosses and three kids And they get paid 8 an hour But the store is hard to find, it's that little bit out of the way that o, but there were people in it Bought watches
Went to Kenny's It was a good party They had three cooks there ht and it looked so chic Kenny was unusually high
Monday, May 5, 1986 Cabbed to the office (6) and it was really busy Anthony d'Offay from London was there and he's decided he loves the Self-Portraits They acted so unsure before that I didn't think they were going to take them, so when Keith saw them and wanted to use them on T-shi+rts for his Pop Shop I said sure, and I think they've uess we have to buy them all back
And Bruno came by, and Senator Dodd, I don't knohy, and Peter Beard dropped in and everything just all converged I gave tours
Then Sylvia Miles said to pick her up at 8:00 for the Liz Taylor tribute at Lincoln Center Cabbed uptown (5) And Sylvia was all dressed up and alked over to Lincoln Center Liz was an hour and a half late Finally she caave speeches And I don't kno she gets work, she's so late late And herso beautiful She was the one person Liz thanked And Liz's one beauty probleet smaller The liquor's still in it She has a twenty-inch waist now, though
Tuesday, May 6, 1986 Wilfredo picked me up and ent over to Calvin Klein's on 38th and Broadhich seemed like a firetrap, you wait for the elevator for hours John Fairchild enty reat to read in Page Six that Jerry Della Feency did a Perry Ellis ad and the boya book and there was the word ”fuck” and Fairchild wouldn't run it in WWD WWD and Della Fe like, ”Who does John Fairchild think he is? He may be able to push Jerry Zipkin and all the other walkers around, but not the ad agencies” So that was kind of great, hearing Fairchild get told off and Della Fe like, ”Who does John Fairchild think he is? He may be able to push Jerry Zipkin and all the other walkers around, but not the ad agencies” So that was kind of great, hearing Fairchild get told off
I thought the shoas like mild Halston, with the sweaters tied around the shoulders and things like that, coats and hats and pants and all lengths, but Fred said it was ”Rich Wasp”
Tried to get work done (cab 4) Bruno had left candy forthere, so I ate it and it gave h, but he said his psychiatrist says it's just a way of hanging on to the boyfriend who died
Wednesday, May 7, 1986 Ran into Bianca and she thankedher to Eizo for shi+atsus and now he gave her another person who'll do additional work on her She's not walking with the cane now
Claudia Cohen Perel a party for Bill Blass, I went up at 7:30 (cab 5) It was heavy-duty Their house is so chic, she had Jerry Zipkin and Nan Ke Bill Blass? A girl from WWD WWD was there, and she's the type ears no lipstick and asks tough questions, she's going to go far was there, and she's the type ears no lipstick and asks tough questions, she's going to go far
And the biginto coot her for the Fox network She's going to go on a half-hour earlier than Johnny I don't know, though, it could backfire You can get sick of people, it can be overexposed, that same style over and over Poor Johnny-one more woman to worry about
Thursday, May 8, 1986 Wilfredo picked me up and ent to the Perry Ellis show at 40th and Seventh (cab 6) And at the end there was a pause and they carried Perry out And so, they said he had AIDS Before they'd been saying that he was just upset and having a nervous breakdown because his boyfriend died of it
Went to the Palladium for the late version of the Andre Walker fashi+on show And as ere standing looking over the balcony my crystal fell out of o down and find it Wilfredo actually found it Tony Shafrazi was next to me when it fell It could've killed soical corsets and it just fell out
Saturday, May 10, 1986 On Madison Avenue all the people filing into the doorway of the new Ralph Lauren store on 72nd-it looks like people walking into the subway entrance at rush hour
I had a weird confrontation with Tama at a blind-date business dinner at Odeon She started saying things to me like, ”Do you believe in children?” and ”You can always adopt” and ”You should get married” And then she said, ”Maybe this is too personal for you, we can go into it another ti that e's head, because it was odd when Paige got so upset that I didn't call her fro this for herself herself I don't know, it's too odd What's wrong with the tree? Soht
Thursday, May 15, 1986 Vincent on the other line just said our Fifteen Minutes Fifteen Minutes shoon the Fashi+on Show Video Award at the Palladiue about all that stuff Taht shoon the Fashi+on Show Video Award at the Palladiue about all that stuff Taht
Oh, and I'd talked to Halston and he said that I should get the ”art press” for the Martha Grahahs), art doesn't really have a 'press' ” And he said, ”No art press? No art press?” This was news to hiet UPI and AP”
Friday, May 16, 1986 Worked till 8:00 Was picked up by Thoo to dinner at Aurora on East 49th Joe Baum who had the Four Seasons and Windows on the World and the Brasserie has it Met Stuart Pivar and Barbara Guggenheim there and the place had sixty lah Why is Stuart looking for other girls, with Barbara so in love with hi lots of money? Why? It's crazy I mean, why did he leave his fa and worry all the tiirls to have sex with? And actually, I think he's only interested in twelve-year-old girls I see hi he likes to do things like shs) have that feeling about hi with anybody, that he's just absorbed in his own things He's really interesting, though, he knows soThe food was cold, but it came with those covers on it like it was supposed to be hot have that feeling about hi with anybody, that he's just absorbed in his own things He's really interesting, though, he knows soThe food was cold, but it came with those covers on it like it was supposed to be hot
Saturday, May 17, 1986 Fred was upset because I' the Martha Grahams, that 300 more prints of mine will be in circulation And I'm upset because the Kent Klineives Klineman ”final approval” and I can't believe Fred would let that happen
And there's that probleet perive it It's a still from a Warner's movie and I don't knohy it was even called called a John Wayne because otherwise you couldn't tell a John Wayne because otherwise you couldn't tell ho it is it is
Ran into Ta you all those personal things the other day”
Sunday, May 18, 1986 We went to the Javits Center for the accessories show Gave out 250 copies of Interview Interview And I was so shocked at the show because I had just bought soirl at the antiques flea market who had beco, and she even told ot these one-of-a-kind balls, and then I go to the accessories show and there was a about how she got these one-of-a-kind balls, and then I go to the accessories show and there was a whole crate of theht she was a I was so hurt because I thought she was a friend friend
It's why I stopped buying American Primitive, because people could just paint it and bury it for a day and sell it to you That's when I got into Art Deco because it ith a label and in books But Stuart thought of a great way to get even with her, he's going to tell her, ”You know that horse I bought from you for 12? I sold it for 10,000 It turned out to be the prototype prototype for all those fakes” He'll just tell her that Isn't he sreat? for all those fakes” He'll just tell her that Isn't he sreat?
Oh, and did I say that Tairl orked for Stuart at his apartht he was so peculiar because he kept a quart of sour o to it once an hour and smell it
Wednesday, May 21, 1986 Anthony d'Offay flew in from London and he said he didn't likean art director He said he liked the other ones that I did but he didn't like these whereso hard on these Ed the plug out I'et senile and hoill I know? I told PH it was up to her, that she's the one I'et senile, and she said, ”I promise I will tell you but I promise you won't believeto the Palladium to Keith's birthday party We went over to pick up Debbie Harry at the Chelsea (cab 5) The party was fun, except that a cute actor nahs), because when Ti, Salad because then thatplaces with Wilfredo Really I wasrelieved because I don't want to get involved It's so nice not to get bothered by anybody Somebody asked me if Sam is homosexual or just immature I don't know He likes older women, but maybe he wants to be h all this again but I never want to go through anything or anybody again in my whole life Sam and I just kid around But he cleans up well and he learns things fast But when soets an attitude soe
Thursday, May 22, 1986 I just read the interview the guy froazine did with azine did with ood because I I wasn't good when he was doing it wasn't good when he was doing it
There was a ca that d'Offay set up, I don't knohat it was I mumbled
Left early Was picked up at 8:00 by Sae show Yoko was doing and she was on already Met Stephen Sprouse there She was doing the happy years from 1980-81 inthis She looks great but this is so stupid, she should be up there in furs and Ar really rich And she should let John rest in peace All I can think of is that Sean must really want his mother to stop this He must be embarrassed
Then went down to Grace Jones's birthday party at Stringfellow's, it was like a trip back into the seventies, neon dance floor and Bunnies with asses And there was no dinner, so we left there, we just wanted sory, so ent over to the Caffe Ro quick and quiet and alked into this big scene, it was a dinner for Prince Albert and Bob Colacello was there and Cecilia Peck and Cornelia Guest A hundred people to say hello to Took the cheese off and ate the pizza
Monday, May 26, 1986 Meain and ent to the sao back more than once because then the stuff starts to look bad to you and you get sick of it without even buying it Ran into Tooing to Europe on Friday to the big Thurn und Taxis thing I'-he doesn't want to take care of me
Worked until 6:45 and then all the dishes from the lunch were still in the kitchen and I told Fred that the kitchen was dirty and he looked atto do the dishes” Diana Vreeland has been really a bad influence on him I should've broken that up In the old days Fred would have been the first person to roll up his sleeves and start scrubbing I had already called for a car so I just had tiuess Jay cleaned up the rest Jay's in a good irlfriend Thomas Ammann saw Jay's art and loved it, but that was a one-ti artists are all now doing abstract paintings because they'reto do the dishes” Diana Vreeland has been really a bad influence on him I should've broken that up In the old days Fred would have been the first person to roll up his sleeves and start scrubbing I had already called for a car so I just had tiuess Jay cleaned up the rest Jay's in a good irlfriend Thomas Ammann saw Jay's art and loved it, but that was a one-ti artists are all now doing abstract paintings because they're h now They're going through everything everything,fun of every period
Went to see Martha Graham with Jane Holzer and Halston Halston did the costumes They did ballets from like 1906 and 1930 and it was funny to see what dancers were like then-they were like hoochy-koochy girls (laughs) (laughs) Ballet needs a new defector-you watch these Russian dancers and we don't have anything like that here I atching a Russian group do ”Swan Lake” and it was just such a difference Ballet needs a new defector-you watch these Russian dancers and we don't have anything like that here I atching a Russian group do ”Swan Lake” and it was just such a difference
Thursday, May 29, 1986-New York-Boston-New York Read an article about the ”Billionaire Boys Club” kids who're going on trial in LA for killing Ronnie Levin
At 2:30 was picked up by Fred and Kate Harrington because we had to go to Boston Cabbed to the airport New York Air I was reading this Peggy Guggenheim book and the best part in it hen Iris Love finds out (laughs) (laughs) she's Jewish-they take her aside and tell her in school she's Jewish-they take her aside and tell her in school
Ted Turner's on Donahue Donahue right now He's so s I hate him Ever since he wouldn't say hello toI hate him Ever since he wouldn't say hello to ot to Boston Mary Richardson picked us up and took us to a Hilton Hotel And Joe Kennedy caood speaker He said, ”That great Aht art down”-and Fred aluess Pop Art did, but he really is a bad speaker He sounded so false, no heart to it
Sunday, June 1, 1986 Edmund Gaultney and Perry Ellis both died this past week
Monday, June 2, 1986 Joe Kennedy came by with Michael Kennedy and I don't kno he can be running for things, he's kind of weird And they had a bodyguard with them, they'd been down on Wall Street And after they left I was having trouble blow-drying a painting
Wednesday, June 4, 1986 There was a lunch for forty-five at the office for Cris Alexander because he's retiring Peggy Cass was there and I told her she should do aone and then she was crippled in both And it was all because she wanted to be a good Catholic and be able to kneel, that's how she won the case
Kent Klineman came by the office and he didn't like the Annie Oakley, and I said how could he not like it since that's the way he ot the John Wayne thing worked out and he said oh yes, that the son, Patrick Wayne, would give per that he could donate to charity, so that was all worked out, and I said, ”Uh, what?” He said Fred had agreed, but I know Fred never would have Ito take it on for hi Kent can pay ot the John Wayne thing worked out and he said oh yes, that the son, Patrick Wayne, would give per that he could donate to charity, so that was all worked out, and I said, ”Uh, what?” He said Fred had agreed, but I know Fred never would have Ito take it on for hi Kent can pay me to do it and then he he can donate it And then it was ti, so I had to ride up to Broadway and 155th Street with hi it behind us because you have to-these days you have business fights and then just have to go on being friendly can donate it And then it was ti, so I had to ride up to Broadway and 155th Street with hi it behind us because you have to-these days you have business fights and then just have to go on being friendly
And Crazy Matty's there to greet s Really nice, and they did a nice show It was packed
Friday, June 6, 1986 There was a dinner for the Oreo cookie at the Waldorf, and I really want to do the cookie's portrait It's having its seventy-fifth birthday
I decided to take Wilfredo All the cookie sellers were around, they were all dressed to the hilt, and it's sad to see these people who have to coo to a cookie party As ere edging in, the securitythis party?” The PR lady had to coreat The new giant-size Oreo that coe About five tiular one and lots of creareat
I was dressed in black and white so I looked like an Oreo, and when the cameras were on I ate the cookies and said, ”Miss Oreo needs her portrait done” So I hope the bigwigs get the hint Oh, it would be so good to do Jerry Leas the e confrontation at the office about Ed, so I went The traffic was so bad and now I knohy coet heart attacks froet there, but if I had been it would've been awful We got there at the end Edmund's father looked like a Southern preacher, a e and I walked to the Plaza for the Yoko Ono thing and she had her shoes off and I told her she was crazy I had her turn her Interview Interview T-shi+rt around because it was black tie (cab 4) Yoko and Sean were there Nona Hendryx was, too, and Roberta Flack got there an hour late Cab Calloway got a et Harlem kids adopted And when you see these kids you do really want to adopt one They're so cute I'll give money to anyone who'll raise one of these kids Spread the word T-shi+rt around because it was black tie (cab 4) Yoko and Sean were there Nona Hendryx was, too, and Roberta Flack got there an hour late Cab Calloway got a et Harlem kids adopted And when you see these kids you do really want to adopt one They're so cute I'll give money to anyone who'll raise one of these kids Spread the word